View of Statue of Liberty from ship during return to the United States during World War I.
Provenance
Black paper album and loose photographs of Ambulance Company No. 3 during training at Camp Hancock, Augusta Georgia, in France during World War I, and as veterans after the war. Album is very fragile. Donated by Mrs. Charles Fasnacht, daughter of George Walzl. With album is a brief history of the company and list of known living members as of 1981.
Photograph- Soldiers and vehicles of Ambulance Company 111, posed at American and West Indies Cigar Co. on Tobacco Avenue, Lancaster.
Description
Soldiers and vehicles of Ambulance Company 111, posed at American and West Indies Cigar Co. on Tobacco Avenue, Lancaster. Customer: Flory Bros., East King Street.
First Lieutenant E. Elton Weaver, American Red Cross Motor Corps, Newport News, Virginia. Taken February 1919. Cousin of Carl, Park, Ross, Wilmer and Emily Weaver.
Group of men who were delegates to Washington, D.C., from the New York Shipbuilding company. Martin Horting, marked in the back row with an x, was from Lancaster. He worked as a blacksmith for the company during World War I and helped to build the U. S. S. Idaho, then the Navy's largest battleship. Photo was taken on the White House lawn and shows Horting with other delegates and government officials. A newspaper article about Horting and the event is taped to the back of the photograph.
S. Howard Wilson and Laura Barley at Camp Meade, Maryland, where Howard was serving in the Army during World War I. The couple got engaged at Camp Meade.
